Posted by
Joseph Lopez on Thursday, January 29, 2009 10:30:00 PM
I've only seen a grown man cry once in my life. It was my dad, when my grandpa - his father - died.
I'll never forget that day when I realized that when something you love so much goes away, it affects you. Deeply.
And despite all the sayings that grown men don't really cry, and to butch up and take it "like a man," yesterday I encountered again that those myths aren't true.
Yesterday I cried. For America.
I was driving yesterday evening when I heard on the radio that the $825 billion "stimulus" had been passed.
It was then that I had experienced something I have never experienced before.
I felt like I'd been shot and I was just sitting there bleeding. Doing nothing.
I felt as though time stood still. I felt as though the world stopped turning, just for a minute.
Over 24 hours later, I still can't comprehend that feeling - a possible mixture of sadness, outrage, anger, despair, helplessness - all at once.
It's as if everything we as Americans had worked so hard for has gone away in one simple bill signature.
As if the American Dream was gone.
As if our image had been stained for good.
As if our voices were silenced.
Yesterday, the liberals and President Obama said "to hell" with America.
"To hell" with ethics, "to hell" with fairness,"to hell" with balance, "to hell" with the American dollar...
But most importantly, to hell with you, the American citizen.
And to hell with your kids, your families, your friends, your life, and your American freedoms, hopes, and dreams.
In my lifetime (dating back to 1989), I have never seen such a corrupt group of liars, cheats, and thieves in Washington.
In a "stimulus package" that was full of liberal propaganda, payback for groups and organizations that donated to Obama, and senseless and useless funds to undeserving groups, the politiscammers in office claimed to care about the state of America's economy, and their hopes to get more jobs back in the market.
But instead of funding the military, cutting corporation taxes, providing financial stability to banks and institutions - just to name a few actual necessities - your liberal chiefs gave you lawn care and condoms. Oh, and funding to people that do not impact this economy.
Not worried about inflation.
Not caring about bankruptcy.
Not tingled about a depression.
Not panicked about your future.
Like kindergarteners at recess - not a care in the world.
I see America - my country, my home, my love - and how everyday the liberals are turning it in to the next Mexico wasteland.
I worry for what is on the liberal agenda, and what America will be a year, two years, four years from now.
A caller to Mark Levin's show tonight - a Democrat - said to give Obama a chance, and that if the stimulus doesn't work, "we can try it again," and that "we can't run out of money." That should strain every muscle in your body. That's how the left functions - without common sense.
Now more than ever is the need for you to speak up, have your voice heard, and do not let America become what Washington, Locke, Franklin, Adams, and the others did not intend America to be - a socialist state with big government.
"Thank you" to every single GOP member with a brain and a conscience who voted against this. An even bigger "thank you" to the 11 Democrats who saw the light and did not drink the Kool-Aid.
Rep. Jim Cooper, a Democrat, told the USA Today, "Congress took his ideas and then added too many of our pet projects and wish lists."
Eventually, Obama and the left will see that providing Internet access for rural folk and giving condoms to teenagers will NOT solve our problem. But will that time come too little, too late?